ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
I am a sustainability and education consultant. Previously I was a lecturer in sustainable energy. I was originally a mechanical engineer, and later a sociologist of environmental technology, focussing on institutional barriers to wind power. I have long been interested in what motivates people's behaviours in education and sustainability practices. I am now studying psychology to better understand the psychology of climate inaction and unsustainability. I hope to integrate this with an understanding of political and institutional barriers to sustainability. I am strongly committed to social justice. I occasionally write satirical verse, particularly about climate inaction.

My Joint Strike Fighter

I used to work in a University department which included both people researching military aircraft and people researching renewable energy technologies. It was an uncomfortable juxtaposition (at least for me). So I wrote the following poem and stuck it on my door.


My Joint Strike Fighter
by Andrea Bunting (with apologies to Dorothea Mackellar)

I love a Joint Strike Fighter,
The queen of killer planes,
Superb in mass destruction,
In deadly war she reigns,
I love her lethal bombing,
I love her stealthy glee,
Her power and her terror –
The JSF for me!

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